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- Jacqueline Small’s Outstanding Trial Advocacy Leads to $4.3 Million Personal Injury Award
A Record-Setting Award Before the No-Fault Changes The Supreme Court of British Columbia’s decision, 2025 BCSC 2006, stands as one of the larger personal injury awards in recent provincial history. This case was decided under the old tort type system, before the introduction of British Columbia’s “m … Read more »
- Limits of Expert Evidence in Regulatory Interpretation
In Krishnan v. Jamieson Laboratories Inc., 2025 BCSC 1289, the Supreme Court of British Columbia addressed the admissibility of several expert reports in a certified class proceeding involving natural health products. Justice Branch applied and clarified the principles governing expert evidence, wit … Read more »
- Separating Injuries in Multi-Cause Cases: 7-Eleven v. Tommy
In 7-Eleven Canada Inc. v. Tommy,2025 BCCA 220 the BC Court of Appeal again revisited the doctrine of divisibility of injuries in tort law. The case concerned significant ankle fractures on 7-Eleven’s property in 2018. While liability was admitted on appeal, the focus was on whether the trial judge … Read more »
- ICBC’s Lack of Duty to Advise on Hit-and-Run Obligations
In this weeks case, Eberhardt v. ICBC, 2025 BCSC 1069, the plaintiff pursued compensation under the ICBC hit-and-run legislation, as it then was, after colliding with a large truck tire abandoned on the Trans-Canada Highway. The accident occurred on October 28, 2018. The plaintiff alleged that a t … Read more »
- Indivisible Injuries and Intervening Events in Personal Injury Claims
This Court of Appeal personal injury case arises from two motor vehicle accidents March 8, 2018 and February 20, 2020. Additionally, the claimant was involved in a workplace slip-and-fall accident in November 2018. The trial judge, Justice Elwood, heard both motor vehicle actions together and found … Read more »